![]() ![]() ![]() A neighboring king has stolen the queen’s lake and is holding it for ransom, and it’s up to Dido and the crew to face fire, flood, execution, and wild beasts to get the lake back - or else. On her way back to London aboard the British man-of-war Thrush, twelve-year-old Dido Twite finds herself and the crew summoned to the aid of the tyrannical queen of New Cumbria. ![]() Readers who have followed Dido Twite’s escapades in Black Hearts I Battersea and Nightbirds On Nantucket will welcome her return in her wildest adventure yet.Ī dazzling piece of dramatic, snowballing adventure, The Stolen Lake is full of fantastical details: revolving palaces, witches who are also court dressmakers, an apocalyptic volcanic eruption, and an infernal country with a noticeable lack of female children. The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken The Wolves Chronicles Book 4 Preteen Fiction 2000 Edition ![]()
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